What’s more remarkable is that Lapkowicz has Down syndrome and Moser is able-bodied. Lapkowicz and Moser have known each other since the fourth grade. Like a true friend, Moser always tried to ensure Lapkowicz was included in school activities.

"He watched over her constantly," their fourth-grade teacher, Tracey Spogli, said to PennLive in 2015. "If she was looking like she wasn't having fun, he would go over and talk to her. He would pull her in to whatever activity they were doing. He just always watched out for her."

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It was also during that fourth-grade school year that Moser promised to take Lapkowicz to prom when they got older.